John McCain, from his usual perch atop the Sunday morning political shows, was in a foul mood this week. While the German and French leaders continue to work for a political solution to the ongoing nightmare in Ukraine, McCain cannot believe that the US is not already...
Month: February 2015
Ukraine Coup One Year On and Does Obama Hate America? – Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 22, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Ron Paul is back with another edition of his liberty report, joined by his co-host, RPI Director Daniel McAdams. Today, Dr. Paul takes a look at the state of Ukraine one year after the US-sponsored coup -- were there no peaceful alternatives? Also, what is the latest...
Will Reading of George Washington’s Farewell Address Influence Senate Warmongers?
by Adam Dick | Feb 22, 2015 | Congress Alert
Per longstanding United States Senate tradition, on Monday afternoon a senator — this year Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) — will read President George Washington’s farewell address on the Senate floor. The Senate website declares that no Senate tradition “has been more...
How US Diplomatic Strategy Gave Netanyahu Leverage
by Gareth Porter | Feb 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
The latest public spat between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government centers on Israeli leaks of details of the US negotiating position in the Iran nuclear talks and the US consequently reducing its consultation with Israel on the talks. Washington...
Ukraine Year One, Syria Rebel Booster Changes Tune and More – RPI’s McAdams and Jay Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US-backed coup in Ukraine turns one year old. The destruction speaks to the folly of interventionism. Also, US ambassador to Syria and father of regime change policy admits training rebels totally futile. And Italy's sudden fears of ISIS in Libya after backing NATO...
State Department’s Jen Psaki as Baghdad Bob
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Director Daniel McAdams takes aim at State Department Spokesman Jen Psaki in this interview with RT. Why is the US determined to continue down the path of conflict while the Germans and French look for a political solution? The interventionists are incapable of...
Gen. Wesley Clark: ‘ISIS Got Started With Funding From Our Closest Allies’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many remember General Wesley Clark as the man who almost started World War III by ordering the British to fire on Russian peacekeepers who landed in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, before the Americans. British commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force,...
Operation Iraqi ‘Freedom’
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
The most important thing about Operation Iraqi Freedom is how it demonstrates how US national-security state officials view the concept of freedom. In their minds, the 11 years of brutal occupation on the part of the US military brought freedom to the Iraqi people. In...
Rep. Walter Jones Challenges McConnell and Boehner on Giving Obama Fast Track Authority
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2015 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), while a guest last week on the Laura Ingraham Show, criticized United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for supporting giving President Barack Obama “fast track”...
Happy Kosovo Independence Day?
by Justin Raimondo | Feb 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Kosovars are celebrating the seventh anniversary of Kosovo’s independence – by leaving in record numbers. By some estimates as many as 100,000 have fled the country in the past few months. Germany is dispatching policemen to the Hungary-Serbia border to stem the...
Ron Paul Liberty Report: President’s Day and Washington, D.C. Speech
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 17, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Ron Paul returns for another episode of his Liberty Report. This time he discusses his favorite president and why. Also he tells us about his recent speech at the International Students for Liberty conference in Washington, D.C. Dr. Paul discusses the great importance...
Libya: A Perfect Storm of Interventionist Failure
by Peter van Buren | Feb 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Libya is the perfect storm example of the failure of US interventionist policy in the Middle East. The Obama-Clinton Model In 2011, Libya was to be the centerpiece of Middle East Intervention 2.0, the Obama-Clinton version. Unlike the Bush model, that of Texas-sized...
Upcoming: Ron Paul’s New Book on War
by Adam Dick | Feb 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul revealed Thursday that he is preparing for publication a new book he has written about war. Paul made the revelation at the conclusion of a wide-ranging foreign policy interview on the Scott Horton Show. The former United States House of Representative member...
Putin Heads Off a US-Russia War
by Eric Margolis | Feb 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Has Russia’s Vladimir Putin pulled Barack Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire for a second time? Will the shaky cease-fire in Ukraine that began this weekend hold up and end a conflict that was threatening a nuclear war between the United States and Russia? The answer...
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s ‘Fair Wind’ Blows Foul in Libya
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 16, 2015 | Neocon Watch
Pondering yesterday's gruesome beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians by an ISIS which has newly found a foothold in post-"liberated" Libya, it is hard to stop the mind from wandering back to Bernard-Henri Lévy, the swaggering French philosopher who almost...

How Many More Wars?
by Ron Paul | Feb 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week President Obama sent Congress legislation to authorize him to use force against ISIS “and associated persons and forces” anywhere in the world for the next three years. This is a blank check for the president to start as many new wars as he wishes, and it...
Andrew Napolitano: IRS Commissioner Apologizing for Seizing Bank Accounts Is Not Enough
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business, explained that United States Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen‘s apology last week regarding the US government routinely seizing bank accounts based on the mere suspicion that the...
UK Supplies Saxon APCs to Ukraine…Which Promptly Sells Them!
by Mark Almond | Feb 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There are times when even Jonathan Swift's sense of satire would be silenced by reality. After a lot of huffing and puffing by the "Arms for Ukraine Now!" neocons like General Sir Richard "Helmand" Dannatt over the weekend ridiculing Britain for only supplying Saxon...
Ron Paul: ‘I Am Not Pro-Putin, I Am Not Pro-Russia, I Am Pro-Facts’
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul was a keynote speaker at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. this weekend, where he enjoyed his usual enthusiastic reception among America's youth, but found himself grilled by several east European visitors about his...
Who is Violating Minsk II? President’s AUMF = Total War – McAdams and Taylor Week in Review
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Will the US be the first to violate the Ukraine ceasefire agreement by sending in the planned 600 US troops? Will Russia be proven truthful or a liar about the claimed 10,000+ Russian troops in Ukraine when the plan is implemented? How does the limiting language in...
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